Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Company Name: Blockworks

Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Blockworks/86416d5e-8ae0-453a-abf3-4ac369a14bb4?utm_source=mAL6dNMEkD&jr_id=698510cd8da7a612045f61ca

Job Description: You have a keen focus on backend and API development and Software engineering is your passion. You are a player-coach and a natural leader who understands the technical and human elements that go into great software design. You have a results-oriented attitude and a passion for delivering flawless releases and developing digital product pipelines (CI/CD pipelines). You have a proven track record facilitating engineering teams to increase productivity and quality.

You're excited at the possibility of being on the ground floor of the design and development of backend strategies. You bring a passion for designing and maintaining scalable API services that handle large amounts of data elegantly. You love moving quickly in a fast-paced start-up, but you also bring intentionality, sustainability and scalability to your approach as an engineer.

What You’ll Do:
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Blockworks, you’ll design, build, and maintain the systems that power our products end-to-end. From high-performance APIs to database architecture, you’ll own the backend layer that makes everything else possible.

You won’t just be handed requirements, you’ll help define them, scope projects, and make the architectural decisions that shape our technical foundation. Your work will directly impact our research platform (blockworksresearch.com) and our media site (blockworks.co; 1M+ monthly active users).

Every day will look a little different, but in general, you will do things like:

Architect, build, and ship backend systems that can scale to millions of requests/day

Design, implement, and optimize APIs that power our research and media products

Own database design, optimization, and reliability (MySQL/Postgres)

Implement caching and performance strategies with Redis or similar tools

Lead backend feature development from planning to production release

Diagnose and resolve scalability, performance, and reliability issues under real-world load

Raise the bar on testing, monitoring, and observability across the stack

Collaborate with frontend, product, and data teams to ensure seamless integrations

Experimentation is frequent at Blockworks. Comfortability with being uncomfortable is a must.